Paul Fanlund: What’s the matter with Iowa?

Former Iowa Gov. Bob Ray, who recently passed away at age 89, embraced a fiscally responsible but progressive agenda that included support for looser abortion laws, the Equal Rights Amendment and opposition to the death penalty. Today, U.S. Rep Steve King better reflects the Iowa GOP. He represents a massive district across northwestern Iowa, and is as unlike Ray as it is possible to be.

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Rebecca Blank: Reflections on five years

Part of what we’ve all done is to deal — and deal successfully — with problems that have come at us. The university has faced several big challenges in the past five years that seriously threatened its quality and reputation.

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Paul Fanlund: What’s the matter with Iowa?

Former Iowa Gov. Bob Ray, who recently passed away at age 89, embraced a fiscally responsible but progressive agenda that included support for looser abortion laws, the Equal Rights Amendment and opposition to the death penalty. Today, U.S. Rep Steve King better reflects the Iowa GOP. He represents a massive district across northwestern Iowa, and is as unlike Ray as it is possible to be.

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Rebecca Blank: Reflections on five years

Part of what we’ve all done is to deal — and deal successfully — with problems that have come at us. The university has faced several big challenges in the past five years that seriously threatened its quality and reputation.

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FRI AM Update: Vukmir, Nicholson back Trump, tout conservative credentials in GOP U.S. Senate primary debate

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — Republican U.S. Senate candidate frontrunners Leah Vukmir and Kevin Nicholson backed President Trump and touted their conservative credentials in a televised debate last night ahead of next month’s primary. But Vukmir lamented the controversial border policy. “We shouldn’t

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